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Tunisia’s premier-designate has announced nominees for a new national unity government.

Task No. 1 for the incoming ministers will be rejuvenating the economy. Tunisia’s newly nominated…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday blamed the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group for the bombing of an outdoor wedding party in the southeast that killed 50 people and…

The former SEAL who took part in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden has settled with the US government. He had been accused of violating federal law after penning a tell-all memoir. Matt…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte railed against the United Nations on Sunday after it called for an end to the wave of killings unleashed by his war on drugs, saying he might leave the…

South Korea says the No. 2 official at the North Korean Embassy in London was the North’s most senior diplomat to defect to the South. This is the latest in a series of defections from Kim Jong Un…

Taliban militants have captured a key district in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz, officials say.

The leader of the populist Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has spoken out in favor of people arming themselves with guns and self-defense devices following a series of violent attacks last…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by percentage points among likely voters, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Friday. The…

Philippine communist guerrillas will observe a seven-day truce from Sunday to bolster upcoming peace talks hosted by Norway, the rebels said, urging the Manila government to also order a ceasefire…

Turkey’s Parliament has ratified a reconciliation deal reached with Israel last month, ending a six-year rift and paving the way for the restoration of full diplomatic ties. Parliament voted to…

The US military has withdrawn from Saudi Arabia its personnel, who were coordinating with the Saudi-led air campaign in Yemen, and sharply reduced the number of staff elsewhere who were assisting…

The United Nations has admitted it played a role in introducing cholera to Haiti and plans to give “material” aid to victims. More than 9,300 Haitians have died of the disease since 2010.

American fighter planes have scrambled to the Syrian city of Hassakeh to protect US special forces on the ground from Syrian government aerial attacks, the US military says.

The Pentagon…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a direct appeal to African-American voters, saying “What do you have to lose?”

Trump told a nearly all-white audience in Michigan…

Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see “commonsense” when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the…

China’s Navy has carried out drills in the Sea of Japan, the Chinese military’s official newspaper said on Friday, describing the exercises as routine and done in accordance with international law…

Both the government and the rebels use blackmail to coerce families into giving up their children to fight. The International Criminal Court considers it a war crime to recruit anyone under the…

The US Department of Justice has said it will end the use of private prisons to detain federal inmates. The practice has been criticized for not being efficient and for maximizing profits at…

Aerial photos have been released showing the self-styled Islamic State terrorists using civilians as shields to escape the northern Syrian town of Manbij.

The Syrian Democratic Forces said…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group on Thursday claimed an attack on a traffic police post outside Moscow a day earlier, in which both the attackers were killed. The militant group made…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday accused followers of a US-based Islamic cleric he blames for last month’s coup attempt of being complicit in attacks by Kurdish militants in…

Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission has said police massacred 22 civilians in the western state of Michoacan last year.

Police say they acted in self-defense and that the killings…

The charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says it will withdraw staff from six hospitals in north Yemen after a Saudi-coalition airstrike hit one of its buildings, killing 19 people.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has overhauled his election campaign team for the second time in two months, bringing in a new manager and CEO.

Pollster Kellyanne Conway…

Turkey issued a decree on Wednesday paving the way for the conditional release of 38,000 prisoners, the justice minister said, an apparent move to reduce its prison population to make space for…